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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-18
81 FOUR MILES TO JACKSON.

-Four miles to jackson! Then it was al
least twelve miles back to Port Hudson
was only four miles from the head
quarters of the Confederate cavalry that
was lowering about our lines, and occasion.
ally. as L had learned, making bold dashee
almost up to them.
AS! afterward learned, Captain Porter
ana his whole company were captured on
his very road, much nearerto Port Hudson
than / vas.
1 turned about; 1 piled my horse with
whip and spur, and retraced my steps with
all the speed that l could get out of him.
From every lane and clump of trees, l ex-
ppected a sally of hostile cavalry, and fear
full visions of Libby Prison thrust them
selves upon my mind. There we're prob
ably hundred chances to one against
my reaching the road to the Land ng in
safety; but fortune favored me; I did it.
Getting Mt last upon the right road,
pursued it without further incident to my
destination. AS I rode out to the river. q
steamer lay at the bank, with steam up, Jus,
ready to turn into the stream. A soldier
On guard at the quartermaster's stores rec
ognized me, aud called out,
Are You after Baker, Cap?"
"Yes-whele is he?"
saw you coming, and ran aboard
that boat. But you're too late; she's of. )
|. l jumped from my horse and ran to the
bank. The captain Of the steamer stood
at the pilot-house, and, calling to him, ]
stated my case in the very fewest words.
"Give me five minutes to get that man.
I said.
His boat being in the Government ser.
vice. The captain was the more willing tc
comply.
iii do it." he said. "Be lively"
l was lively. l ran through the boat,
above and below, and in q dark corner OF
the forehold I found Baker.
He followed Inc ashore without q word.
l put him in charge of the Lieutenant OF
the guard for the night, and the next morn
ing he marched up before my horse 10 the
rifle pits.
The reader would probably like his sub
sequent history. There was no time mol
opportunity for courts martial Just then,
and I wanted to put the man where he would
have to fight-the worst possible punish.
ment for one of his kind. Such o jade is
fortune! This worthless fellow actually
passed unhurt through all the perils of the
riie-pits and the assault, where good and
true soldiers were killed and wounded; he
entered upon another campaign in Western
Louisiana with us that fall, and there died
of disease. He was q soldier in spite OF
himself.-J. r. F., IN Chicago Ledger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-18
The Soldier Who Ate Glass.

During the summer and fall Of 1868 /
was with my regiment at Camp Denison,
Ohio. Two companies, including my own,
were sent after General Morgan when he
made his famous raid through the Northern
States. After a weeks scouting, fighting,
and on picket duty, We returned to camp.
This being the first soldering for some of
the boys, several Of us returned sick, and
were sent across the railroad to the General
Hospital.
In a few days after l was sent there my
regiment was sent to Fort Laramie. I, with
some others, was left behind at the hos
pital.
1t was there I saw and knew the soldier
who ate glass. It may seem to your read
ers perfectly absurd to talk about a human
being eating glass and still living. Yet it
was q fact. I have forgotten the soldiers
name, and to what regiment he belonged,
but I remember that his disease was oph-
thalmia, or sore eyes. He and l were in
the same ward, and l saw him every day
seen him take an eight by-ten pan of glass
in n hand and a li4ce of bread and meat
in the other. He would take q bite of
bread, then q bite Of glass, chew it oil up
together, and swallow it.
He always had to be paid for his glass
eating. Visitors to the hospital, who had
heard of him, would make up a dollar or
two, and he would eat q pane of glass or a
tnmbler for them. The hospital doctors
would often come in and watch The opera
ton, and when he was do o and seemed to
enjoy his lunch, they would sometimes say,
"For goodness sake, man, what kind of o
stomach have you. any way?"
He said he had always done the same
thing sine he was a Child, and had never
experienced any inconvenience or Larm
from it. Tn. doctor promised to buy his
corpseo of his friends after lie died aud pay a
good price for it, just to examine his
stomach. But be would not sell in that
way. He offered to take one thousand dol
lars in cash for his c,dlver when 9 was done
with it, Lut they would not accept the offer.
He may be living vet for all l know. l left
him there when l came away, in November,
1868.
All that I have written is fact, wit.
messed by hundreds of soldiers and hospi,
tai visitors. w. H. II. STONE,
Company F. Eleventh Ohio Cavalry.
NEW MAhTINsBURG, Ohio
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-18
He Was Too Busy to Notice It.

One Of our citizens, saving wood dur
ing the cold weather a few days since, was
SO absorbed in the occupation That b" did
not notice one of his fingers was frozen un-
til it became nearly Hack. There is moth
ing like strict attention to business, what
ever that business may be. This reminds
us that one Of the col,lest mornings OF this
season, two citizens meeting on the street,
stopped, both speaking almost simultane-
ously, one saving, Your nose is frozen"
and the other, "Your cheek is f,ozen,"
which was the fact II both cQaes.-Bruna.
pick (Me.) Telegraph.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-18

.,,. cling the prnise Mt this late day
lh ~, our bntt!es by Generals won,
pnrt ther forget to sing IN any way
''n 70 the boy thnt,cnrrled q gun.
,.,,s To our dcar old soldier boys,
h,ri,l bless t..em,c every one.
Nv m,rs who wore the epaulet.
lae tho bows who carried the gun.
Wa remember our dear parents we'll.
"eenmd tne t mrs tnnt in anguish fell
- the day We Went nwny
Ia the wur, to carry o gun.
. sistors and brothers dear,
We left them, every one.
T.. 1ospu,r, with a vacant chair,
MwI,iie We went to carry a gun.
:. Mold the dear of those
"Wh,so race hns long been run,
w comrades of the long ago,
YIN tell while carrying u gun.
-. home guards shout and stay ut home,
]. ,nl g wards to Canada run;
,ast,nd bv tae flag and native land,
",nl the boy who carried a gun.
while we live we will sing our songs,
And until life's journey il done
~ I've our heart, we give our hand,
va = the boy who carried o gun.
,ra when we have made our last grand
march
wothe roll of the muffied drum.
1.nwill please to write. us our epitaph:
Here's boy that carried a gun"
1,uxs. Mich,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-18
AND SHELL.
|. ~vo+erans' Reminisc Of
the War Of the Re-
bellion.
.;,o Anecdotes Of Actual Expe'
.;once and Colloquial Ac-
QUESTION.
Row That Carried a Gun.

BY W. p.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-18
Both Full Of MOonshine.

ats a full moon hat looks down upon
the stills o. Georgia." lem ,rks the Louis
Vile Courier-JourmaL Many a full Georg-
ian, loo, looks up mt the MQen.-BostQn
Record.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-18

nailed high up on a tree. It was faded
and dlngy, but the direction, photographed
instantly on my mind, was perfectly legi-
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11
A HORRIBLE MISTAKE.
A Mother Gives Her Ten-Day Old
Babe a Fatal Dose of Nor
phine.

AT six o'clock Monday morning Mrs.
Baldwin, wife off. w. Baldwin, the
well known merchant and justice of
the peace of Dresden, administered to
her ten days old infant a powder
which as she supposed at the time was
one which had been left for it by the
doctor. Shortly afterwards the ac-
lions of the little one caused her much
alarm and its inclination to drOwsi-
ness made her begin an investigation,
when to her horror she discovered
that instead of the powder prescribed
she had given it morphine powder
left for herself during her confne-
ment
The physician was hastily sum-
mOGed and arrived half an hour after
the terrible drug had been admins
tered. He did all he could and
remained with the little sufferer
until 1870 Monday night, when it
breathed its last in the arms of its
distracted mother. 1t was buried at
3 p. m. yesterday and it is needless
to say that its mother is we'll nigh in
sane with grief and anguish over her
horrible mistake, and that the strick-
en- parents have the sympathy of the
entire community A very singular
coincidence with the sad afair is the
fact that about three months ago a
sister of Mrs Baldwin lost a child in
nearly a similar way from the same
poisonous drug. The victim in that
case being a fve-year old daugh-
rer, who found and ate box of NOR
phlne pills, from the effect of which
she died
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11
HORRIBLY MANGLED.
fic Fireman, Injured in
Collision.

Yesterday morning at 2:45 o'clock
a collision between two freight trains,
occurred on the main line of the Mis-
souri, Pacific road two and half miles
east of Holden, which will probably re-
suit in the death of fireman Robert
Calhoun of engine 81S. The particu-
lars of the sad affair as nearly as
could be learned are about as follows:
Fourth section of freight % bound
west had orders to pass first section of
"a, east bound, at Holden. The three
leading sections had already passed
that point and the fourth section
drawn by engine S18 engineer David
Kinamsn and fireman Robert Calhoun
was on its was there, when by some
misunderstanding Robt. Yopst, en-
gineer of engine 814 which drew
first "a pulled out from Holden and
as she emerged round the
curve, two and a half miles east of
Holden, came upon train No. %.
Both trains were under good Roadway
and heavily laden. This rendered it
impossible to stop until they had
crashed into each other. The engi-
neers and firemen finding a collision
inevitable, sprang from their engines
just in time to escape being buried in
the ruins, as the cars crashed over
their engines. Fireman Calhoun had
also sprang from his engine and was
well up the bank of the cut where the
accident occurred, when the force of
the collision threw steel rail from a
flat car upon the bank, which caught
him at the right hip and left leg,
crushing him to the earth and horri-
bly, mangling him with its weight.
Engineer Kinaman was also badly
bruised absut the shoulders by his
jump, but the others escaped with
little injury. As quickly as possible
the pinioned fireman was re-
lieved and brought to the Sedalia
hospital where his injuries were
examined and it was found that his :
right thigh was so badly crushed as to
render amputation necessary, in addi-
ton to which the left leg was frac-
tured below the knee. The amputa-
ton was at once performed and the
unfortunate man rendered as comfor-
table as possible, but his physicians
express grave doubts as to his recov-
cry. Mr.. Calhoun is about forty years
of age and resides near Warsaw, Ben
ton county, where he has family and
owns farm. He has been running
on the road only short time, having
done so, he said, to get money to stock
his place. He was making his second
trip with Engineer Kinaman and
said to that gentleman after he left
Sedalia that he thought this would be
his last trip as he intended to go home.
Crushed by the Cars.
Theo. Thompson a brakeman on
the south end of the K IL L. road
met with instant death while In
the discharge of his duties Sunday.
He was engaged coupling cars at
Fort Scott when his foot caught be-
tween the guide rail and track throw.
ing him down and holding HIM fast.
Two cars passed over him crushing
him in horrible manner. He was.
about 25 years of age and has been
running on the road abou six .nonths
making his home at Mrs. Burran's>
boarding house. He was a Quiet
sober, industrious young man and has
many friends here who deeply regret
his sudden death.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11
HOrsprd's Acid Phosphate
ssIsTs MENTAL LABOR.

Prof. Adolph OFT, New York, says of the
Acid Phosphate: 81 have been enabled
to devote myself to hard mental labor,
from shortly after breakfast till a late
hour in the evening without experiencing
the slightest relaxation, and | would not
now at any rate dispense with it."
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11
A UNION OF HEARTS.
A Pleasant Wedding at the Christ
ian Church Yesterday.

A pleasant wedding took place yes
terday morning at the Christian
church, in this city, the contracting
parties being Miss Maude M. Christy
and Mr.. Charles Whitmire, of I'm
iOnville, Mo. Miss Christy is the
daughter of Mrs. A. d. Christy, q
well-Mnown citizen of Unionville, but
has for the past few years made her
home for the mgst part with her sister
Mrs. g. w. Barnett, of this city. She
is a handsomd and accomplished young
lady, having been graduate of the
class of 'S3 of the Broadway high
school, of this city, and also being a
musician of considerable skill. At
the time of her graduation she was
awarded the honor of writing the
class poem, and did it so well that it
won her considerable fame. The
groom is engaged in mercantile bust
ness In UniOnville, aud is a prosper
Gus and popular young man. The
ceremony was performed by Elder
NJ. Nj. Davis at precisely
nine o'clock. The ushers were
Prof Robbins and j. Randolph, there
were no attendants.
The bride wore handsome street suit
of Chinese blue tricot. richly trimmed
with shaded golden brown aud white
feather trimming. The wrap was
trimmed to match and the hat was
adorned with a red bird in shaded
colOrs and tips of golden brown and
white. The costume was both pretty
and appropriate. Quite a number of
elegant presents were received from
here, among them being large water
pitcher and goblets of hammered
silver, silver card receiver, silver cups,
spoons, etc., besides many articles of
value which were presented by friends
in UniOnville.
After the ceremony the bride and
groom took their departure for Un-
iOnville, where cosy home
had been made all ready for
their immediate occupancy, even to
an elaborate dinner which had been
ordered for discussion as soon as they
arrived. The brides friends in this
city will wish herself and the man of
her choice happiness and prosperity
and the BAzoo joins in their wish.
-"Get outen the rye, you slicktaIl pos
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11

commissioner. .............. 5S %
David Ramsey, coffin for pauper- 90
ID. A. Clark, cots for isil.......-.. 90
corder.. -. -. 49,. go. , 90
q. Z. Holman, livery for paupers 10 90
COURT. $500. ................. ESQ
A. K. Easton, stationery, prosecu-
ting attorney. 8 IS
Geo. Dugan, lass, court house. / 90
City Water Works, water. l02 80
john Smith, ianitor .................. % 90
J. L. Cowan, bridge CONTRACT. 6S GO
Charles Richardson, Insurance.. ll2 so
Court adjourned in course to the
first Monday in February.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11

VIM. V. Jaynes VS.. Western I'm
ion telegraph company; defendant
files demurrer.
Waddy Thompson vs.. Western
Union telegraph company by con-
sent defendant files answer.
GARNIsHEE.
E l.. Shackleford VS.. Bank of Se,
dalia, garnishee j. Z. Bouldin-
plaintiff .refiles interogatOries of gar
nishee filed last term, leave to gar
nlsheer to answer by next Monday.
CHANGE OF VENUE.
State ex rel Fulkerson VS.. T. HI.
EmmersOn, continued by consent.
Sarah A. Carton, wife of Newton
+. Carton, now serving a sentence
in the penitentiary for forgery, was
granted divorbe from her husband.
The damage suits of Mary Farley,
Newton Smith, Maggie Yopst and
Absolem McNey, VS.. the Missouri
Pacific railway company were called
up and In each case the railroad COM
pany filed its answer.
In the injunction suit of Joe King
VS.. Scally d Son the defendants were
granted next week in which to plead.
In the partition suit of James
OBell ct. al. the return and interlOc-
utOry decree were amended by insert
ing the northwest quarter of the north
west quarter of the northwest quarter
OF section eighteen, township Forty
three, range eighteen in Benton
county and the commissioner filed his
report.
The other entries were as follows:
A. Meyer ct al. VS.. w. l.. Corley
ct al, lien introductory, judgment
made final for sl37.70 with ten per
cent per annum and order for en-
forcment of lien.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11
NOTES.

In the suit of the Sandwich manu-
featuring company VS.. Geo. III. Goetz,
the judgment for plaintiff rendered
Wednesday was by the curt ordered
set aside.
+. :. Brown. receiver, VS.. David
BlOcher ct al. judgment for plaintiff
for 1882. 50 and s per cent.
In the equity suit of Painter VS..
Ewers, the cause was taken up, heard,
argued and submitted, when court ad.
jOurned to 9 a. m. to-d9y.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11

-"GeI outen the rye, you slicktaIl pos
sum,
You can't ketch coon with a pokeberry
blossomp-
Said customer to his druggist, when he
handed him bottle of iron bitteS, l.
stead of Browns Iron Tonic-his favorite
medicine. Sold by Mertz & Hale.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11

Lemuel Allen VS.. w. +. Henry /;
motion to suppress dispositions heard
and cverruled; defendant excerpts.
Salmon Falls bank VS.. Geo. T..
Brown etal. defendant G. E. H.
genfritz, granted until February 1,
to plead.
DAMAGES.
State ex rel Ernest Weiss, VS.. Sc
dalia gas light company; plaintiff files
petition for writ of mandamus.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11
Circuit Court.

rst Monday in February.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-07


BILE letters from prominent statehood
men-Jndge Moody, O. 81. Myers and
John A. Owen. They bear upon different
points within the statehood question
and appeal directly to the people to
move in their own behalf. Mr.. Myers
presents the taxation phase of the situa-
tion and calls attention to the fact that
thu iaiis of Dakota are filled with men
waiting trial, who are denied the justice
OF enquiry into their cases be0ause CT the
inadequacy of our judicial system under
q territorial form of government applied
to the wants of half million people,
The school tax is fully one-hlN the tax
o: the people and they are paying it
year after year while the school lands
are lying idle and unt valuable because
statehood is denied us. Six judges are
assigned us by the general government,
but they are unable to attend to the
demands upon them because Of the sx-
tent of their populous districts. These
things occur because general govern
ment denies to Dakota that which the
constitution and the laws long ago pro
vided should be done. These letters
are commended to the careful considera-
Of the public.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-07

This weeks meeting of the state ex-
ecutive committee at Huron resulted in
the adoption of the following resolution,
presented by Judge Owen, Of DeSmet:
ResOlged, That the governor and pre.
siding officers OF the two houses OF the
state Legislature be urgently requested
by this meeting to re convene the iegis-
latare at avery early day, that it may
provide ways and means for tbs support
of the state government and for prose-
outing the cause of admission, and that
We will, to man, support them In every
forward movement they shall make.
Judge j. A. Owen, A. Haines and Gov
ernor Mel.ette made strong speeches be-
fore the committee in behalf OF state.
hcca. Il. Haiaes pertinently remarked
Under what principle OF republican
government does Mr.. Springer propose
to diefranchise every voter OF one.third
OF his power in the selection of those
VINO frarat tho constitution Of the state
| By provision in his bill the fedora
officers, instead Of the people. dIstrie
the territory and the franchise OF free
people is curtAiled by one third. Sncl
bill osnnot pass congress and II
should, is should be promptly disooun.
tenanced by the people OF Dakota.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-07
no. Whom it may Concern.

Take notice, that on the 25th day of June 1886
petlt'Dn MAS nied IN the once OF the county
clerA u Aalkton county, Dakota terSltory,
pfhy1a. Lhe board OF county commissioners
drain to.run AS follows: Commencing at the
bridge hulit by the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad company where the same crosseH clay
creek IA The county OF Yanktou, and territory
OF Dakota, and running thence IN . soatheast-
erly dlrectlon To y point IN the boundary line
between the counties of Clay and YRnktun, in
said territory known 90 the 'Otd Bridge Site,
about two hundred And ten (2lO) rods north of
the northwest corner of section thirty [SOJ in
tow1shlD nlnety-four GA nor th of range hfty-
three. west OF the 5lh principal meridian !;
thence running In u aoutheasteriy direcuion to
the Drudge crosa said Clay creek, known Al
Harts bridge" to cuIvert about one hundred
and thirty tiS0} rods south Of the NORTHWEST
corner of section taot0 township ninety-lhree
tgS( rheise following the general dIreotlon and
Us near as may be the bed of said Clay creek as
the same new rnns 10 3 point kaoWas AZ CLAY
creek tails, SAID petltion being signed by u.
son. That the county commissioners In and
for said counties OF iankton and Uiay, Dakota
territory, did on the luth day of July, 1885, ap-
pcint viewers to view aaid prop0heo ditch or
drain and to report as TO the public utility OF
the same. From the report of said viewers
which WAS tlied In the ollce of the county clerk
III and tor xankton county, Dakota territory
ON the 9th day OF October, 1856, IL appears that
they report In favor Of the utility and public
benehtof said proposed ditch or drain. that the
said board of ,county commissioners OF Yank-
ton a.id Clay cOnnsies have liked the Ilth day
of January 1857, al 10 O'Clock q, N. snd Will
meet in JOINT sesslon at the office Of the county
clerk Tor Yanktol county in tae city of Yank-
ton, Dakota territory, tor Tho finai hearing of
SAID report r
The said proposed ditch or drain will run
through End affect lands owned by tbh follow
ing named parties AS tsE as their names can be
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-07
Advice 10 Maihnrs.

L Are you disturbed at night and broken
OF your rest by sick child suffering and
crying With pain OF cutting teethP Ispo.
send at once and get bottle Of
Mrs. WIssIow's sooTHINa SYRUP for
Children Teething. Its value is lncalcu-
liable. 1t will relieve the poor little snf-
ferer Immediately. Depend upon it,
mothers, .here is no mistake about it.
1t cures dysentery and disrrhoea, regu-
lates the stomach and bowels, cures
wind collie, softens the gums, reduces in
fammation and gives tone and energy
TO the whole system. Hrs. WinstoS's 3
Soothing Syrup for Children Ieetni:s:S is
pleasant to tho taste. and is the prescrip.
tion OF one of the oldest nurses and
best female physicans In the United
States, and is for sale by all druggists
throughout the world. Price twenty
FIVE cents bottle.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-07
The Only Way to Conquer Dyspepsia.

1t is perfectly preposterous to introduce
pepsin and other artificial solvents into the
stomach, in the expectation that they will as.
sist digestion by acting on the food itself
They will not. Nor is it possible thus to over
come dyspepsia. The only way to conquer
that disorder, and prevent the numerous
diseases and disabilities which it assuredIy
provokes, is to renew the activity of gastric
action by strengthening the stomach. Hos
letters Stomach Bitters eradicate the most
inveterate forms of indigestion by restoring
vitality to the. alimentary organs, and those
which are tributary to them The liver, the
bowels, the kidneys and the nerves, no less
than the stomach, experience the invigorative
effects of that standard tonic, which possesses
Alternative properties that greatly enhance it,
beneficial influence. and give permauence tc
its effects which it would not otherwise possess